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PAUL MASON is the economics editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs program Newsnight and appears frequently on BBC World News America. He has covered globalization and social justice stories from locations around the world, including Latin America, Africa and China. His book, Live Working, Die Fighting, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
Absolutely brilliant. I wish such insights were coming from politicians of the Left in the UK. Sadly they are light years behind Paul Mason, and increasingly paraochial in the analyses. Keep the message coming Paul.
qpranger10 4 days ago
@kemokidding Thank you.
agnosticnixie 2 months ago
Transcript at bit.ly /hPUD5M
kemokidding 11 months ago
10:12: "In many of the countries, the social mix is now a lot more like that which created the Paris Commune, with a strong urban poor, a weaker organized labour, and a radicalized intelligentsia, than for example Flint, Michigan in 1937."
kemokidding 11 months ago
5:35: "In the story I've noticed three things happening that are new... the demographics, the technology, and the behaviour."
kemokidding 11 months ago
18:33: "You may have thought - and my colleagues and my profession may have thought - that such sentiments, such idealism, such ability to create the sudden community out of the empty space of isolated individuals, to achieve change through non-violence, and through eloquence - you may have thought that the days of all that were gone. Well, they're back."
kemokidding 11 months ago
8:44: affects three groups: graduate workforce + students; urban poor; organized working class. Neoliberalism has taught them to be individualistic.
kemokidding 11 months ago